“It’s nice to win here again and it was a good victory. I’m very happy for my team, especially, because I think I helped give some good morale for the team. I’m disappointed that we couldn’t win yesterday but it gave us some good motivation and now we are ready for the three or four stages in the mountains.
- Question: You’ve been a away from competition cycling for two years and the last time we saw you at the Tour, it was because of your positive test. Can you give assurances to the public that you are changed as a rider and that you are riding clean?
“Yes. It’s like I said after the win in Liège-Bastogne-Liège, ‘Vino is coming back. This is the new Vino’. With my victory there, I asked why I always must prove my reform. This is the new Vino and I think everybody understands that now. I must win my popularity in France and I think this victory in the Tour helps… but I don’t want to talk anymore about 2007.
“I rode well in the breakaway and was great today and I’m happy.”
Interview
July 17
th
2010
- 18:11
Alexandre Vinokourov – “This is the ‘New' Vino...”
